Done yesterday (20110731 Su)

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A good day. A 3-mile walk, lots of productive puttering, and the UBF and almost all of his stuff have been delivered to his home in Simi Valley. (The YD is upset about the latter, of course, but there's nothing we can do about a protective order.) The house feels a lot better now.

On the gripping hand, my right shoulder and neck muscles continue to hurt, despite naproxen, methocarbamol, ethanol, heating pad, and switching shoulders on my shoulder bag. :(

The main puttering accomplishment was finally making a 4"-high step to help Colleen get into the van. Basically just a 18" piece of 1x12 sitting on a couple of 2x4's and held together with deck screws. It turns out that it's exactly as high as her scooter deck.

I determined that my Stagg mic stand fits in Chami when completely folded. This required vice grips to take the broken setscrew out of the base; I'll have to go to OSH sometime soon to find a replacement. Looks like about a 5mm, just to keep things interesting. The music stand attachment doesn't quite fit in Chami, but does fit in the TravelPro suitcase. But I can haz traveling mic stand!

Now all I need to do is finish getting satisfactory scratch tracks...

I am feeling cautiously optimistic. Good drugs? Finally getting off my tail on a number of different projects? Don't know, but hopefully I can keep a little momentum going.

As for links, I'd like to point out Ricoh's 100% Wind and Solar Powered Billboards Come to London, New York & Sydney. It feels good to know that the company I work for actually gives a damn about the planet and its people.